GaelFG

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by GaelFG 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's because it's in fact 'just' a cool side effect to a common network architecture optimisation from the time where you could'nt send the 'state' of the entire game even with only de
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by GaelFG 6mo ago
Not from the article : Before you walk in, a supercomputer predicted which choice you'd make, and put $1000000 in the opaque box if it predicted you'd take just the one, or $0 if it predicted you'd take both. So the amount o
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by GaelFG 6mo ago
I don't get the 'choice' : the content of the box is aldready defined when you take your decision so taking it won't change the content of the black box and the open/transparent box have no drawback. What am I missi
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by GaelFG 8mo ago
Nextcloud is great !
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by GaelFG 11mo ago
Was really helpfull when making international phone call to services like IRS or sometime good providers. Trying to spell out my french name and long adress or some order number with my strong accent was such a pain until then ^^
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by GaelFG 2y ago
Funny, I always thought that phrase was ironic and actually a joke against IBM bad quality/pricing ratio but abundant and aggressive marketing targeted at non technical managers. ( I actually have no idea of IBM quality/pricing ra
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by GaelFG 2y ago
I bet (litteraly, founded an xr game development company in february) xr/vr games will indeed became a mainstream gaming platform in the next 5 years, maybe even next year. If or when it become the case it may totally become as present
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Never watched him but honestly, that would be pretty standard mature workflow. In most video games productions, efficient coding is basically conceptualizing a dsl from the game design, writing it's interpeter while gluing the needed l
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I assume most of losses come from headsets R&D, and subjectively i would bet on them too, the progress are amazing, a today 350$ headset have better quality than 5 year ago 1500-2k ones. Honnestly I thinks VR/AR is becoming really
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Unless you specifically need a lot of the dot net library (and in this case you can probably theoretically 'just' use a plugin for access) I would encourage you to try gdscript. I went from 5 years of unity pseudo-c# to it in abou
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by GaelFG 3y ago
(Probably, why take risk) Can't tell the bank name (but yeah, in the top 4 by size) and not trying to defend your bank but the SMS validation thing is actually on the state 'fault' and you are in fact legally covered in most
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I'm glad and don't see better solution than to use an algorithm to decide this over personnal choice. I understand the choice of using software. What I don't understand is why this software is not open source, heavily documen
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I dont know if you are joking but when managing i do exactly that and that work (with a factor of 3 to be precise, with most people, some aldready take that into account). Works also with myself, i askmyself 'how much i think it will t
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I have no clues about what's better but as a french I'm amazed by the idea to delegate banking operations to a cloud provider. Last time I worked in bank IT political requirement and good practices were using their own private phy
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by GaelFG 3y ago
The trick is as a player you are not really the main customer of steam. You are the product. The customers are game developers, and they are as predatory toward them as any big corp online store. Not worse, but not better either.
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Is it because we're all just writing junk code as fast as possible and say fuckall to technical debt? My guess is : probably, I love taking time to make architecture because it's fun and rewarding, but I would not be shocked it&#x
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I think the parent was referencing fake non profit organization, I don't know for USA but in europe it's a 'classical' tax avoidance trick going from 'having a charity which goal is to allow you to particpace in pri
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by GaelFG 3y ago
In fact they do. Barely any development FOR the french government is done internally, all is externalized to "specialized" extern private companies (a known exemple Cap Gemini). I wouldn't call them clowns, and they do have c
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I'm not sure that's right. Video game customers are wrong (or dishonest) about what they think they want. They want to see themselves as intellectual gourmets, only in research of exotic gameplay and rich stories but still spend t
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Hot take : fully cooperatives board games are either bad wargames or bad role playing games. But good social activities neither less and good introductions to the genre. And yes, it's totally ok to only play theses. They are, I think s
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Certainly but totally not leaded by theses companies, whose practices are the reason union should exist, a lot more than Unity. You think a 20cent fee per install is revenu cannibalization ? read one of their publisher contract.
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I laught when I read the names, Voodoo and Homa game are "movie bad guys level" souless hightly predatory game publishers (don't know the others). It's a PR stunt.
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by GaelFG 3y ago
I never tried with Godot specifically, but i (and fellow varied developers) did it a lot in Unity and "it worked". The main points were : - Relative ease of use for us (especially when working with juniors/intern who often on
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by GaelFG 3y ago
"I won't give names but trust me", VC funded tech companies with 3-10 bros 'who have or not a vague technical background but more see themselves as high level thinkers' between founders and their first hires for &#x
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by GaelFG 3y ago
A bit ranting : Working with unity for some years, I think the problem is not specifically the fee in itself, it's the context. It need polishing, there are edge case and abuse potential to work but if I were to consider the new Unity
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by GaelFG 3y ago
My two cents as former (and currently writing business plan for a new company) small scale entrepreneur : If like it seems your main problem with your current work is stress and overworking, full time company building without big net safety
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by GaelFG 3y ago
Well they were given theses right by the users who spend lot of money on having these system resources and are asking games to be as beautiful and complex we can (not all the users, i'm not the last to spend time in oldschool games, bu
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by GaelFG 3y ago
If you are serious (I do game development for a living and work on graphical assets daily so that seems evident for me, but I totally understand it can be arcane stuff) it's simply that they choose a stylized graphical style avoiding a
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by GaelFG 4y ago
"that would mean lower profits for employers (who contribute a higher percentage of their income)" No, for equivalent 'net money on your wallet after tax' a company pay more tax for employees than for company owner. With
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by GaelFG 4y ago
There are some potential very big game changers, I do hope it will pass. Specially because I think a lot of theses measures can only be applied through regulation and will improve consumer experience. The problem for me with walled garden i

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